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Pounded by Steve Rolston, Brian Wood

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1.0

God, in 2002 we must have been DESPERATE for stories with women in them, because I can think of no other way this passes muster today.

- The intro is a page long ad for the introductionist's own comic. The gist is, Pounded doesn't have enough dick-stirring sex in it. His comic does. Read his comic. His boner, and yours, is very important. (It isn't.)

- Vancouver only recently (in 2008) raised their age of consent laws, from 14 to 16. Our 20-something protagonist still gives off a distinct whiff of Creeper in "cherry popping" (ugh) our 17 year old heroine.

- Speaking of our 17 year old heroine, she moves to NYC, finds out her BF is cheating on her, then revamps everything about herself in order to become his perfect arch-nemesis AND return to Vancouver to wreck his apartment? Having been a seventeen year old, no. No one is coming back from NYC to Vancouver to enact crosscoastal revenge fantasies. Which is all this miniseries really is. And not a very good one, at that.

- Heavy is terrible. Is that the point? He's living the high (low) life off a trust fund, and is completely unprepared to deal with the realities of the lifestyle that he emulates. So, yes. He is, in fact, a poser.

- But then he goes to prison and learns the benefits of a half assed apology, one that will enable him to keep on keeping on the lifestyle to which he's accustomed?

This was a serious waste of my time. And yours.
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